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MUNCIE, Ind. — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider the latest — and perhaps final — appeal of convicted killer Larry Wayne Newton Jr.
The Muncie man was 17 when he fatally shot Christopher Coyle — a 19-year-old Ball State University student from Pendleton — during an attempted robbery in an alley east of the campus in September 1994.
A year after the homicide, Newton pleaded guilty to murder, part of a plea agreement that saw prosecutors end their pursuit of a death sentence.
Judge Robert Barnet Jr. later imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, as had been specified in the plea deal.